Re: download functionality

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists epiphany rawuncut elitemail org>]

* Adam Hooper <adamh densi com> [Nov 23, 2004 15:20]:
> > I see no reason why epiphany should have a download
> > manager at all.

> I'm not up to date on the current state of download managers... do they
> really work for all sites? Even those which rely upon cookies or (worse)
> user agent strings to send downloads?

Hm, true, but most don't rely on cookies and such, rather relying on
temporary files and so on (a la Sun's JDK download)

> Also, Epiphany's downloading interface is great -- I certainly
> wouldn't want anything more complicated (though it'd be nice to see
> "completed" in the download manager for a couple of seconds before it
> disappears...).

OK, I guess I should back off.  I've disabled the downloading interface
in Firefox (which I am using until a certain keyword feature makes it
into Epiphany), so I basically trust that downloads work out fine
without me visually being notified.
	nikolai

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